Hurricane Katrina decimated the city of New Orleans, leaving an estimated 80% of it underwater after the faulty levees broke. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed, primarily in predominantly Black ...

The devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, nearly 20 years ago, changed life as we knew it in the New Orleans area.

The Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts are the latest factor. But funding concerns date back to Biden’s term, when ...

Scalise was elected to Congress in 2008. He discussed how the country has learned from mistakes made in the wake of the storm. "It put pressure on government to do better at every level," he said.

Two decades later, New Orleans’ Black leaders share lessons on displacement, policy failure and continued progess with ...

A Race Against Time premieres later this month and will help reclaim the narrative for the people who lived it 20 years ago ...

The devastation in Texas Hill Country isn't the first time Americans have mourned the victims of deadly floodwaters.

NEW OLREANS ( WGNO) — A wreath laying ceremony was held in New Orleans Monday, July 7, in remembrance of Hurricane Katrina.

THEIR CHURCH, AND NOW A FATHER FROM NEW ORLEANS WHO NOW CALLS TEXAS HOME. HE TELLS US ABOUT HOW HIS FAMILY IS REACTING TO SEEING DEVASTATION IN A COMMUNITY THAT THEIR KIDS SPEND TIME IN. YEAH, THAT’S ...

This is the second story in our series chronicling the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. On the first night of Essence ...

These statistics only begin to describe the scope of the damage Hurricane Katrina wrought on New Orleans’ infrastructure and culture, an impact still seen in blighted houses, shuttered hospitals ...

A view of Bellair Drive, where the breach happened at the 17th Street Canal Floodwall during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, in New Orleans, on Aug. 31, 2021 in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.